I remember a little while back I managed to convince a friend of mine (a particularly gullible young lady, I must say) that flapjacks were invented when a morbidly obese fellow named Jack accidentally dripped some oats, sugar and honey on himself when he was cooking breakfast naked. He forgot about it until several weeks later when he lifted one of his flaps of fat to see that the heat and pressure in there had condensed the mixture into a solid cake-like substance.

He ate it and it was delicious. Hence we call them 'flapjacks'. Her response was 'that's disgusting' and she resolved never to eat them again.